Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 26 January:   JEAN-CHRYSOSTOME BRAUNEIS = Canadian composer, organist and music teacher, the first Canadian to study music in Europe = [died: 1871]
• 21 February:   NICOLÒ GABRIELLI = Italian opera composer = [died: 1891]
• 26 February:   GIUSEPPE LILLO = Italian opera composer = [died: 1863]
• 3 March:   CHARLES KENSINGTON SALAMAN = British pianist and composer = [died: 1901]
• 21 April:   BÉNI EGRESSY = Hungarian composer, librettist, translator and actor = [died: 1851]
• 1 May:   EMMA ALBERTAZZI = English stage contralto = [died: 1847]
• 12 May:   ADOLF VON HENSELT = German composer and pianist = [died: 1889]
• 6 November:   ADOLPHE SAX = Belgian inventor of the saxophone = [died: 1894]

Timeline of Musical Events

• 27 February: Premiere of BEETHOVEN's Eighth Symphony in Vienna
• November: Gypsy composer JÁNOS BIHARI plays to the court during the Congress of Vienna.


• Undated:
• Invention of the metronome by JOHANN NEPOMUK MALZEL
• The district of Lawrenceville (Pittsburgh) is founded by WILLIAM FOSTER. His son, the composer STEPHEN FOSTER, was born there twelve years later.

Published Popular Music

• HENRY BISHOP:
• Sadak and Kalasrade, or the Waters of Oblivion
• FRANCIS SCOTT KEY:
• The Star-Spangled Banner

Classical Music

• LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
• Piano Sonata No. 27 in E minor, Op. 90
• Der glorreiche Augenblick, Op. 136 (cantata)
• JOHN FIELD
• Nocturnes
• JOHANN NEPOMUK HUMMEL
• 6 Polonaises for piano
• FRANZ SCHUBERT
• Gretchen am Spinnrade
• LOUIS SPOHR
• Violin Concerto No. 7 in E minor, Op. 38
• Das befreite Deutschland, WoO64 (cantata)

Opera

• LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
• Fidelio (Vienna)
• FRIEDRICH KUHLAU
• Roverborgen (The Robbers' Castle)
• GIOVANNI PACINI
• La ballerina raggiratrice
• GIOACCHINO ROSSINI
• Il Turco in Italia